Tag: Arizona spiders

Spiders in your garden? Orb-weaver spiders are the most common garden spiders and love to hangout in the center of their round webs. Why do spiders spin webs? A spider spins a web to trap insects because their vision is not so good. Spiders can tell when prey […]

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What do you do when you find a Black Widow Spider? Although spiders are important for the ecosystem and very beneficial to a garden, widow spiders are considered the most venomous spiders in North America. Black Widow spiders are the most common species that belong to the Latrodectus genus, in […]

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Identified a poisonous widow spider with white marks or spots on a large abdomen. Pictured below is a venomous spider that belongs to the Latrodectus genus, in the Theridiidae family. Latrodectus is a genus of spider which contains 32 species. The more common name is WIDOW SPIDERS. Widow spiders belong to the cobweb spider family. They spin irregular, […]

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This spider’s wheel shaped round web made identifying this striped legged spider easier. Orb-weaver spiders are the most common garden spiders and love to hangout in the middle of their round webs. This chromatic spider made a web marvel between two large yucca plants. It was a medium sized […]

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Wolf spiders are expert hunters and pretty easy to identify due to their large size and hairy bodies. If touched or threatened a Wolf spider will bite. I was careful while observing this large gray, grey, Wolf spider that made his home in our Lantana plant. Wolf […]

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This medium sized light brown spider with dark stripes built his tunnel web in our aloe and cactus plants. Funnel web Spiders are known for their tunnel looking, funnel shaped webs. These spiders are found all over the world. There are over 600 species of funnel-web spiders, belonging […]

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Our quest to identify a spider near our pond as it is eating the damselflies **. In the middle of a well engineered round web was a black, brownish, gray spider with striped legs. **Damselflies are beneficial to the health of the pond. The wheel shaped web made identifying […]